I went half way around the world to see this stuff. But you can get at it for free. Microsoft have put videos of sessions from PDC 2008 onto Channel 9. There is some truly some excellent stuff, whether you want to find out more about Azure, Windows 7 or Oslo. Get the videos here:

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Rob Miles is technology author and educator who spent many years as a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Hull. He is also a Microsoft Developer Technologies MVP. He is into technology, teaching and photography. He is the author of the World Famous C# Yellow Book and almost as handsome as he thinks he is.